The Health Inequalities Team at Newcastle University is led by Clare Bambra (PhD, FMedSci, FAcSS, HonFPH, Leopoldina) Professor of Public Health. Her research focuses on understanding and reducing health inequalities.

Clare is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Social Sciences; an Honorary Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health; and an NIHR Senior Investigator.

Clare is a founding co-Director of Health Equity North and she leads a number of large research collaborations including a Wellcome Trust funded project examining the north south health divide.

Internationally, Clare is a member of WHO Europe's Scientific Advisory Group on Health Equity and a senior investigator in CHAIN: The Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

She has over 20 years teaching experience and regularly supervises Masters dissertations and PhDs on health inequalities. Please contact Clare if you are interested in studying with her.

You can watch Clare give expert evidence on health inequalities to the UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry, listen to her BBC Radio 4 interview on health and place or her public lecture.